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How many coffee-brewing methods does one geek need, anyway?!
So, let’s talk about coffee! I was slow to arrive at coffee, though I think I was always going to get there. I’ve loved the smell of coffee ever since I was very young; I remember making my mother … Continue reading
Twenty Years
I thought about writing a long remembrance of that horrible day, a walk-through of the weird mix of terror and business-as-usual that played out in the office where I was working at the time. I just…don’t want to do that. … Continue reading
Something for Friday (the “Oh crap, I’ve been busy as hell and a day off all week” edition)
Sorry, folks, it’s just been a busy week. Anyway, as part of my mood-listening for writing of late, I’ve been listening to music from Star Trek. Here’s a selection from James Horner’s score to Star Trek III: The Search For … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
In honor of Labor Day, and therefore of the labor movement and the fact that the single biggest contributor to the America that exists is the American worker, here’s a piece that pays tribute to one of the fruits of … Continue reading
A Proposed AMENDMENT, addressing certain ISSUES pertaining to the SUPREME COURT of these UNITED STATES.
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while: how I would fix the Supreme Court. Obviously, I’m not an expert and am quite possibly wrong in many ways, but you have to start SOMEWHERE, right? Here’s my proposed … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Here is a selection from John Williams’s score to JFK that seems to match my mood regarding the present and future of America. I don’t know, folks. I just don’t know. There is no law of nature that says we have … Continue reading
For the Record
I support the right to abortion. Moreover, I do not think that anyone who gets an abortion has done anything the least bit morally wrong. I believe that conservatives in America, for all their blather about “freedom”, will keep chipping … Continue reading
August is the new July
This was a long-range forecast from nine days ago: I’ve noticed for a while that I deal better with hot temperatures these days than I used to. Ten years ago, or more, I would personally start getting very uncomfortable any … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Another fascinating work today by a composer whose work I’d never heard before: Zhu Jian’er, a Chinese composer who lived from 1922 to 2017. Judging by this piece, I need to hear a lot more of his work. A particular … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Because he would have been seventeen today.